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Saint Lucy, [283-304] born in Syracuse, Sicily. [her feast day is December 13) the virgin and martyr of Syracuse, Sicily, is known as a patron of those afflicted with haemorrhagic illness. She is also the patron saint of the blind and those with eye-trouble. The name Lucy, which means "light", and is rooted from the Latin word that means "lucid," meaning basically "suffused with light, clear, understandable."
 

Her life story, however, is far from clear. According to tradition, Saint Lucy was born of a rich and noble family in the year 283 in Syracuse, Sicily. Her father died when she was young.
 

She became solely dependent on her mother, Eutychia, who was suffering from a haemorrhagic illness. She arranged for Lucy to marry a pagan named Paschasius.

Growing up a Christian, Lucy vowed her life to God, and was able to put the marriage on hold for 3 years.

At that time Lucy became aware of the fame of the virgin-martyr St. Agatha, who was known to cure illnesses. She persuaded her mother to make a pilgrimage to St. Agatha’s relics at Catania, about 50 miles from Syracuse. Eutychia was cured, and Lucy persuaded her mother to allow her to distribute a great part of her riches among the poor.

 Lucy also rejected her bridegroom in order to devote her life to God. Having been rejected, Paschasius denounced Lucy as a Christian. When the governor sent guards to fetch her, they could not move her, even when they hitched her to a team of oxen. The governor, then,  ordered her death instead and she was set on fire. Again, God interceded and she was saved. Lucy was later executed by stabbing with a dagger. Tradition tells of Lucy’s eyes being gouged but God restored her eyesight before her death.